13/6/2024, 3:56:02 pm

Aepnus aims to establish a circular economy for essential battery materials

Earlier this year, BASF had to delay the opening of a battery materials plant in Finland when a court agreed with environmental groups that the company didn’t have a good plan to deal with its wastewater. Wastewater from these plants emerges laden with sodium sulfate. “We can totally create a circular economy around these reagent chemicals,” Bilen Akuzum, co-founder and CTO of Aepnus Tech.